Sec. 16A-35. Billboards and wall signs.
(a) Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of
billboard painting or wall signs or the rental of space for such
business shall pay for the privilege forty dollars and in addition
two dollars for each such billboard or wall sign in excess of
twenty.
(b) Every person, firm or corporation, excluding firms or
corporations holding a franchise from the city, engaged in the
business of selling advertising space inside their buildings shall
pay for the privilege an annual license tax of twenty-five dollars
and where the gross receipts exceed two thousand dollars the tax
shall be twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars in addition
thereto. (4-7-69, § 14.)